Title: Deleting a directory and all the directories files and all the subfolders
Question: How can I delete a directory and all the directories files?
Answer:
This function is based on the Peter Lieber article. But it is recursive and presented as a function. Return false if directory removing failed.
The following function demonstrates deleting all the files in a
directory and then the directory itself. Additional processing would
be required to delete read only files and files that are in use.
function DeleteDirectory(aDirectoryName : string; aContent : boolean = true) : boolean;
var
DirInfo: TSearchRec;
r : Integer;
begin
result := true;
if aContent then
begin
r := FindFirst(aDirectoryName + '\*.*', FaAnyfile, DirInfo);
while (r = 0) and result do
begin
if (DirInfo.Attr and FaVolumeId FaVolumeID) then
begin
if (DirInfo.Attr and FaDirectory = FaDirectory) and
(DirInfo.Name '.') and
(DirInfo.Name '..') then
result := DeleteDirectory(aDirectoryName + DirInfo.Name)
else if (DirInfo.Attr and FaDirectory FaDirectory) then
result := sysUtils.DeleteFile(aDirectoryName + '\' + DirInfo.Name);
end;
r := FindNext(DirInfo);
end;
SysUtils.FindClose(DirInfo);
end;
if Result then
result := RemoveDir(aDirectoryName);
end;